Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cynics suspected Messrs. Cummings, Jackson & Co. of personal animus in initiating the Alcoa suit, New Deal partisans now equally wondered whether a "Mellon judge" was cracking back at them. White-haired, erudite Judge Gibson was appointed to the bench by President Harding 16 months after Mr. Mellon became Harding's Secretary of the Treasury. His son-in-law, William H. Eckert, is a member of the law firm of Smith, Buchanan, Scott & Ingersoll, Aluminum Co. attorneys. But in Pittsburgh it is a rare Republican, Presbyterian and substantial citizen who does not have at least one son-in-law connected...
Last year Walsh held the Tufts batters to three hits and one run, but the big left hander has never approached the same effectiveness this season. Curtiss, who starred for the undefeated Yardling nine last year, has warmed the bench since the spring trip, when he faced two hitters, dusting off both of them. If the slender right hander succeeds in taming the Jumbos this afternoon, Mitchell's mound worries will be dispelled...
Judge McDevitt testified that during all his years on the bench he has only come across one Pennsylvania student who was arrested for driving under the influence of intoxicants...
...important heirs: on his right Governor Leche (already "Dick" to him), on his left swart Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri of New Orleans, once Huey Long's Conservation Commissioner. Governor Leche, who two years ago was an unknown Long judge, now has hopes of a place on the Federal bench. Only other big Longster present was Seymour Weiss, Huey Long's onetime treasurer with whom the President cordially shook hands...
...Offal Court. Young Prince Edward thrives at the court, under the tutelage of the Duke of Norfolk (Henry Stephenson). Young Tom Canty thrives in the gutter, with Latin lessons from Father Andrew and whackings from his father (Barton MacLane). Prowling about London one day, Tom crawls under a bench outside the castle to take a nap. The Captain of the Guard hauls him out and is giving him a thrashing when Prince Edward comes out of the palace to call his dog. Prince invites pauper indoors to play. They change clothes for a joke, laugh when the mirror shows...